Grace VanderWaal Quotes

People seem to think that you should be willing to speak to them whether they're jerks or not.

There are some things that, if you say them out loud, will hurt the other person's feelings. I tend to say them anyway. It's better to be honest.

I think it's important to be kind of brutally honest without making anyone else feel bad in any way, if possible.

My mom. Growing up with her, she always taught us to say whatever. Like, 'You think something, say it. Don't bite your tongue for people.' I think there's a fine line with that, but at the same time, I'm a firm believer in speaking your mind.

I'm not a trash talker, that's not my thing. But if someone asks me, I'm going to say what I feel and what I think.

You have to speak your mind, but without being cruel.

If people don't ask you for their opinion, you don't have to share it, but if you are asked, be honest.

It's completely beyond comprehension that you just can't say anything without offending somebody or the other.

I'm very bold and say what I feel. That doesn't mean I ruffle feathers. It means I'm being honest.

It's one thing to decry and defy political correctness in the name of efficiently achieving clarity or revealing an honest truth. But it's quite another thing entirely to support name-calling and nastiness.

In my experience tact is usually worse than the brutalities of truth.

Truth or tact? You have to choose. Most times they're not compatible. It's so hard to draw the line.

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

Maybe one of you can enlighten me, but I just don't understand why it is so hard to be kind to one another?

I treat people who write me the way my friends and I all treat each other when we go to each other for advice, which is sometimes with supreme cruelty.

Be open and honest, but perceptive to your boss's situation. That's my advice to graduates worried about working with a new boss.

It's impossible to go through life not offending people. All you have to do is basically have an opinion on anything, and you're gonna offend people.

If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along - whether it be business, family relations, or life itself.

The cure for cynicism is simply to engage honestly.

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

I've been very lucky, from the beginning. I've found that as long as you're fundamentally good - as long as you're not being bad to people - people give you a lot of room to be yourself, because being yourself is being honest. And that's what people want to see.

It is more comfortable for me, in the long run, to be rude than polite.

'Honesty' in social life is often used as a cover for rudeness. But there is quite a difference between being candid in what you're talking about, and people voicing their insulting opinions under the name of honesty.

It's good to be selfish. But not so self-centered that you never listen to other people.

You can't expect to make no effort. You still have to make the effort and be kind and understanding.